Tarana Burke, the activist who created the “Me too” movement long before hashtags were ever a thing, will be at Stony Brook University on Jan. 28. Burke will meet with legislators, the public and students to discuss bringing progress to the #MeToo movement on Long Island.

Associate Professor Ken-Ichi Takemaru from the Department of Pharmacological Sciences was honored by Half Hollow Hills High School Board of Education for mentoring three grand prize winning students of the prestigious 2017 Siemens Competition. Alumnus Michael Lake was also honored.

At Stony Brook’s radar observatory, SoMAS Professor Pavlos Kollias, center/back, and colleagues use new radar technologies to take an “MRI” of clouds to better forecast weather. The emerging technologies enable researchers to determine what happens inside clouds and define their components to not only forecast precipitation but determine more exact amounts of precipitation accumulations and where they would occur.